“Stormzy realizes his pop rap ambitions on Heavy Is the Head.”
“From its title to the artwork that depicts Stormzy holding his Banksy designed vest while adorned with a crown of gold, the messaging of ‘Heavy Is The Head’ is clear: Stormzy’s second album is an exploration of a man on the cusp of greatness. After 2017’s ‘Gangs Signs and Prayer’, and this year’s Glastonbury Pyramid Stage headline slot, ‘Heavy is the Head’ is 54 minutes of Stormzy properly realis”
““How’s the best spitter in grime so commercial?” wonders Stormzy on Wiley Flow, a standout track off his second studio album, Heavy Is the Head. It is a pointed rhetorical flourish from a man who mostly wears the mantle of street poet-king like a tracksuit made of fine silk. It was, arguably, only a matter of time before grime threw up its true crossover star. That the genre should have found one”
“Stormzy apologises to Maya Jama and addresses the state of the nation on new album”
“A solid album but also not a surprising one. To boot, the main thing that grounds this album with a sense of time and place is the political side of it.”
“As he ascends from grime rapper to generational spokesperson, the charismatic UK star tries to figure out where to go next.”
